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We Cannot Tolerate Legal and Personal Attacks on Journalists For Doing Their Jobs (NPR)
NPR ^ | January 17, 2017 | Michael Oreskes

Posted on 01/17/2017 10:53:17 AM PST by Drango

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To: Drango

Repeal and replace....with static.


21 posted on 01/17/2017 11:01:08 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: Drango

Journalists.... I have seen one those from CNN or NPR in years. All I see are fake news merchants.


22 posted on 01/17/2017 11:01:51 AM PST by RedWulf (TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP!)
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To: Drango

but apparently they can tolerate personal attacks on a republican president just doing his job?


23 posted on 01/17/2017 11:01:59 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Drango

IDK, no one seems too upset when Leftists tie up a duly elected administrator making it impossible for them to serve the people.


24 posted on 01/17/2017 11:02:12 AM PST by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job....)
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Notice how he says that Trump shouted Acosta down, when it was Acosta who kept shouting.

He’s comparing this to Trump’s encounter with Acosta?

“The Obama administration also repeatedly threatened journalists with prison under the guise of investigations into leaks that allegedly threatened national security. When I was senior managing editor of the Associated Press, the Obama administration secretly seized the wire service’s phone records in order to reveal AP’s sources. A New York Times reporter, James Risen, was kept under threat of jail for years to pressure him to reveal his sources. An FBI agent accused Fox News reporter James Rosen of possible espionage for basic reporting. NPR and other news organizations reported on these actions and protested vehemently. These were chilling threats to obstruct journalism and even criminalize it. I and many other journalists said so. Risen described the Obama administration as the most antagonistic to the press of any since Nixon.”


25 posted on 01/17/2017 11:02:23 AM PST by TakebackGOP
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To: Drango

” Those journalists should be free to do their work without fear of personal or legal attacks. “

They lie and then don’t want to be held accountable. Those days are done.


26 posted on 01/17/2017 11:02:46 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (CNN - The Chicken Noodle Network)
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27 posted on 01/17/2017 11:03:13 AM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Drango

No government funds for NPR.

Now if ‘journalist’ would just do their jobs...


28 posted on 01/17/2017 11:03:34 AM PST by Altura Ct.
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To: Drango

“Doing their jobs” FOR WHOM????? That is the question.

And we can well tolerate all kinds of horrible things for abettors of treason.


29 posted on 01/17/2017 11:03:40 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: Drango

blah blah blah blah.....

Presstitutes have no credibility

“It is up to journalists to rebuild that credibility”

Well, that’s a tough task when you’re all such biased, dishonest, left-wing PRESSTITUTES!!


30 posted on 01/17/2017 11:03:41 AM PST by Enchante (Hoping the Clintonistas are gone from our public life forever!!)
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To: Drango

That’s cute. NPR still thinks there will be a “we” in their future.


31 posted on 01/17/2017 11:05:07 AM PST by The Toll
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To: Drango

That would be yuge! Let the leftists on NPR go to Soros for funding


32 posted on 01/17/2017 11:06:29 AM PST by Navin Johnson
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To: EQAndyBuzz

They do not have sovereign immunity.


33 posted on 01/17/2017 11:06:55 AM PST by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! And please, God, bless the USA again.)
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To: RummyChick

Robust and rambunctious shouldn’t be a euphemism for unrestrained mendacity.


34 posted on 01/17/2017 11:07:03 AM PST by DPMD
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To: Drango

Then why don’t journalists “DO” their job?


35 posted on 01/17/2017 11:10:08 AM PST by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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To: Drango

Make them completely disappear.


36 posted on 01/17/2017 11:12:34 AM PST by Gator113 (I use liberal tears in my milkshake ~DRAIN THE SWAMP~ ~ LOCK HER UP ~ ~DRAIN THE SWAMP~)
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To: Drango

For doing their jobs CORRECTLY, agree.

For doing their present performance of omissions, exaggerations, downright lying, and coming out of the closet as despicable left wing low IQ marshmallow majors who cannot get gainful employment doing anything productive, I think they should get the book thrown at them.

And then sent to some Muslim country dressed only in a thong.


37 posted on 01/17/2017 11:12:50 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: combat_boots

They don’t have a single “right” beyond what anybody else in the US has

All they have is a medium to get their “opinion” out there to the masses that the majority of people can’t afford.

They are not special

They are not needed


38 posted on 01/17/2017 11:13:07 AM PST by digger48
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To: Drango

If only they would do their job. Report the news, don’t make it up and don’t spin it. Just report.


39 posted on 01/17/2017 11:14:02 AM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Drango

Citizen bloggers and reporters like Paul Joseph Watson and David Seaman should be given priority over MSM hacks.


40 posted on 01/17/2017 11:14:55 AM PST by Rebelrage ("To crush your enemies -- See them driven, and to hear the lamentation of their women")
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